Chapter Eight: The queen of nothing
Emma sat back in confusion. She had tracked Cable to a house in the Andes. She spent two hours devising a point of entry and about eighty seconds to get caught and gassed in the most elaborate home security system she had ever seen.
When she came to consciousness again she was alone in a detainment chamber. Nate Gray had been waiting for her.
In this reality Nate Gray had come over from his version of the AOA and been discovered by a Charles Xavier who did not go on to become Onslaught. An Xavier unmarred and unmolested by Magneto's hate.
This Nate Gray was introduced to his counterpart Nathan Summers under friendly conditions, using a phase discriminator to cancel out the psionic interference between the two.
Emma could feel Nate's power. And his ability. He could make her forget. But he had chosen not too.
He took her on a tour of the facility. It was not a haven for murderers and thieves.
It was a medical care center for victims of the Legacy Virus.
The Legacy Virus Vaccine was developed in Cable's bloodstream. His techno-organic infection had begun to process the Legacy Virus and create a Techno-Organic-Legacy Virus. This virus communicated between components of it self on a very specific frequency. Once this frequency was isolated, the techno-legacy virus's days were numbered.
The infected tissue was then bombarded with isolated frequencies that disrupt the communication between the techno-components. Once this disruption occurred the virus lost it's cohesion and, with the aide of some blood work, was wiped from the body.
When Hank McCoy devised this treatment he had no idea that the organic Legacy virus would be totally controllable by the same process. It took only three days of perfecting the treatment before it began saving lives. In six short weeks a world on the verge of epidemic was brought back from the brink.
Except in one small room, in a testament center in the Andes, reserved for he most trying and complicated cases. In this room, Cable was dying.
His techno-viral infection absorbed the maturation rate along with a few other properties of the Legacy Virus. No longer was his vast psychic power enough to hold his disease at bay.
Emma pulled back from the observation window. Obviously, this Cable was not the same one that had so seemingly killed Kurt. This Cable had not been out of this room in many weeks.
"I'm sorry." She told Nate.
"And I for you." He replied.
They made their way to the front of the converted house before the alarms went off. Suddenly Cable was in Emma's head. *Quickly, danger, Mystique!*
And then it ceased.
She alerted Nate (who was electronically shielded from Cable's psionic frequency) and they made their way through the maze of corridors and personnel.
Until Nate ran strait in to himself. "Duplicate this." He said, his arm outstretched, as though conducting some invisible control.
The other Nate screamed in a register several octaves too high and collapsed.
Cables life signs fluttered. As they did, the overflow indicator on the Keepers station fluctuated as well.
When Cables life signs dropped off the scale, so the surrounding dimensions were threatened with a 90 percent result.
The monitors in the station were fluctuating and shifting rapidly to try to assess the full scale and impact of the event.
The small red letters produced only one possible method of restoration: Restore Cable to life.
